BC Leonardo Da Vinci’s the Last Supper Essay

For this assignment, you will write a formal art critique analyzing how a well-known artist or designer utilized the elements of art and principles of design in creating his or her artwork or design. This critique should follow the four-step model of art criticism.

Artist or Designer
Select an artist or designer from the following list:

          Artists 

Leonardo da Vinci

• Raphael

El Greco

Caravaggio

Diego Velázquez

Rembrandt

Johannes Vermeer

• Edgar Degas
• Paul Cézanne
• Claude Monet
• Wassily Kandinsky
• Vincent van Gogh
• Henri Matisse
• Paul Klee
• Pablo Picasso

  Designers

• Alphonse Mucha
• Henri de Toulouse-Latrec
• Cassandre
• Paul Rand
• Saul Bass
• Milton Glaser
• Ivan Chermayeff

Drew Struzan

Paula Scher

David Carson

If you would like to choose an artist or designer not listed above, you must first get approval.

• Artwork
  The artwork you will critique should be: 
• a painting created by a well-known artist, or
• a poster created by a well-known designer
   
• Paper Content 
• Select a well-known artist or designer from the list provided above.
• Select a painting or poster created by the artist or designer you have chosen. Consider selecting an artwork that expresses spiritual concepts and a Christian worldview.
• Write a formal art critique analyzing how the artist or designer utilized the elements of art and principles of design in creating his/her painting or poster.
• This critique should follow the four-step model of art criticism.
• Historical or biographical information on the artist or designer should not be used.
• Include a properly cited color image of the painting or poster. For proper citation and punctuation, see the example below.

  Example:
  Paul Cézanne, The Basket of Apples, c. 1893. Oil on canvas, 25 7/16 x 31 1/2 in.,
  Art Institute of Chicago.

  Terms and Definitions